Friday, August 07, 2009

A Southern Oregon Beer Mile

**Warning** Some the images below are graphic. It's advised that you do not try the following activity at home alone.

The official rules can be found on The Beer Mile website. We won't go into the specifics. All that can be said is that you drink a can of beer before each of the four laps you run. Sounds simple enough doesn't it? But as many folks found out last night, it's not easy to keep it all down. Not easy at all!

Roughly 40 folks started the August Beer Mile in Ashland, OR. Most finished. So how did folks fare? There were three unofficial, official finishers under seven minutes. Hal Koerner in 6:50.7, Todd Ragsdale in 6:55.0 and Erik Skaggs in 6:57.0. Rob Cain and Heidi Bosworth recorded the slowest, but still respectible time of 16:38. Thanks to all those who put aside their vices, egos and doubts to participate this year. Nice work eveyone! On to "some" photos...

Our Beer Mile Logo. Look for it coming to a theater near you.

Leland and Renn get their groove on pre-race. Costumes are encouraged.

Tim and Aaron pose pre-race.

The first beer is always the easiest.

Maria and Heidi drink up.A hand on the forehead was a position often assumed for this event.

The contenders down their tasty beverages.

Worse than running the event is the clean-up after all the carnage. They were ready! Thanks!

Ragsdale puts it down! Has he done this before?

More than drinking was done. Bree Ray sprints to finish her mile. Looks as if most of her beer ran down the front?

The lead pack on lap one. Are those spikes Hal?

The chase pack.

Torrence loses his on the fourth lap. Penalty lap assessed.

That'll be a penalty lap for you too, Jenn. Does anyone have a mop?

Ixel likes the foam and won the women's race (no time recorded though). Heidi still has her hand on her forehead!

Your 2009 Beer Mile Champion. Hal Koerner, 6:50.7

The Faces of Agony.

It's simple. It's just you, the track and your beverage. Don't miss out next time.Right?

Aaron Brian definitely wins the costume awardIan with wins the sweetest tights, although Leland in second with his sweet ass tightsMacdog did it right with the O'doulsThanks for the many many spectators, you made it even more fun!

sweetest tights, huh? i'm sure glad Ian wasn't wearing those in Redding '08! You guys have all the fun up north!! Congrats Hal. Although I walk a fine line with my "premium" mixture of beer drinking and running (currently planning a Dogfish Head brew tour/Dogfish Dash 10k/Yankees-Sox game in September) I doubt I could break 8 minutes, especially Drinking PBR!!! Keep me in the loop for the second annual...have beer will travel!

Three under seven is impressive. Way to knock 'em down, Hal. In college, every time there was ever any beer drinking occurring my friends and I got in the habit of doing a little Beer Mile training: sprint a couple laps around the outside of the building (to incur some sort of oxygen debt) and then chug a beverage. Always a good start to the night...

I think the photos captured the event from the runners perspective well. What was needed were photos of the spectators. Their faces said it all and their emotions ran the gamut from horror, humor, pity, feeling sorry for us, schadenfreude, shame, and outright revolt.I’m just glad Heidi was there to help sooth my delicate ego. You’re not really DFL when there’s a tie are you?

I'm in WS next year but maybe it would be more fun to try and peak for this event! That shot of Shelton has mag cover written (or is that splashed?) all over it. And...Mr. 100 Miles mentioned on his blog that Mr. Smiles would have solidified his bid for runner of the year honors with a W at WR but, forget about that, this performance is where it's at. I mean who can argue with this kind of versatility? Time for a cold one...and a run.

This definitely makes me want to organize one of these in central Oregon. In fact, I've already started talking to a few folks. Then we can have a grudge match - Southern Oregonians vs. Central Oregonians. Who has the fastest running alcoholics?

we had ours in town a few weeks ago under humid conditions. I would encourage the use of a beer bong if you are looking to edge your closest competitors. Old Milwaukee or Leinenkugels works best up here. I see you chose the rice beer. nice jesterwear too.

B: On the other hand if someone were to slam four DogFishHead 120 minute IPA's, well then that could be worthy of a performance of the year considering each bottle is in 18% abv, or 40 proof. run, slam, run slam, run, slam, run, slam, then run to detox.

It appears the over-forty crowd was missing from this event. Some of us were pretty good drinkers in our day -- maybe not good runners, but we'd still provide some competition. Looking forward to the second annual beer mile.

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